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Find the game id in games folder

Under "$HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common", locate the game folder of your interest. Usually it has a file named steam_appid.txt, which stores the identifier used by steam to create the game save folder.

If steam_appid.txt is not present in the game folder, you can still identify the game id by searching it into "$HOME/.local/share/Steam/userdata/XXXXXXXXX" directory.

XXXXXXXXX is your steam ID. There you will find one folder for each game, the folder names are the game ids. Inside each folder there is usually a remotecache.vdf file that has some informations on the game. If you are lucky enough you will infer which game remotecache.vdf is referring to by reading its content.

Backup the save

Steams creates a new windows-like directory tree for each game save.

Games saves are stored inside "$HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata" directory.

Use the $steam_appid to identify the correct game directory.

After that, the save files can be found in /pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/$GAME_NAME.

$GAME_NAME format varies game by game.

Just backup that directory and restore it when needed.

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